Going Underground: a warts and all look behind the scenes of The Tube

Tune in for drunken revellers and terrifying stabbing on BBC2, 9pm

IF you’ve been brave enough to try to travel on the London Underground network over the weekend at any point in the past four years, this new series goes behind the scenes to show you how it was all kept running.

It sheds light on some of the essential, but hugely disruptive, track restoration work that has turned getting from A to B into a logistical nightmare.

It’s a daunting challenge for the engineers, who have to take the line apart then put it all back together again in time for Monday morning’s rush hour.

This first episode is all about the weekend as we watch station staff patiently shepherding the usual Friday night crowds of drunks and we witness a bizarre but terrifying stabbing at Leicester Square in which a woman was randomly shoved on to the track.

“No one cares,” says station supervisor Wasim Malik.

“I worked at Holborn once. There was a person dead on the floor, on the escalator, and people were still trampling over him. Welcome to London. Welcome to the Underground.”